About K9 Family Training

K9 Family Training is a one-trainer business based in North Tonawanda, built entirely around private lessons taught at a location of the client's choosing. Its stated proposition is teaching the owner rather than the dog: the site's own line is "Teaching you to train your canine."

Program

Lessons run sixty minutes and the business publishes its prices openly, which is rare in this market: $100 per lesson, or six lessons for $500. A published lesson covers socialization and basic manners, crate training and potty training, and basic commands such as sit, down and come, with advanced and extended work in off-leash control and focused heeling for owners who want to go further. Programs are described as customized rather than packaged, and a free consultation is offered first.

The trainer

Owner and trainer Peter Qi describes a childhood ambition to be a K9 police officer, which turned instead into training his own German Shepherd, Maverick. He joined a Schutzhund club in the Buffalo area and over five and a half years earned BH, IPO1, IPO2 and two IGP3 titles, the highest level in the sport. The site explains what IGP is, a three-phase sport of tracking, obedience and protection that began as a breeding suitability test for the German Shepherd. Those titles are the trainer's own sport record, so ask directly if you are looking for protection training.

Practical details

The business publishes North Tonawanda, NY 14120 as its address, with k9familytraining@yahoo.com as its contact and a Facebook page. There is no facility – the training comes to the client.